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The Public Guardian is launching a new scheme for professional guardians who have five or more guardianship cases, which it is hoped will bring time savings and cost benefits. Under the new scheme, the OPG will no longer undertake the traditional full annual account review on every case but will randomly sample a selection, and assuming the audits on these are 'clean' will accept the remainder with a covering one page summary sheet only. This will markedly improve the time taken for audit
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are simple, e.g. paying for the adult’s day to day expenses such as gas, electricity, clothes, toiletries
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Search Duties as a financial intervener If you are appointed as a financial intervener you will be expected to fulfil some administrative responsibilities: Apply for caution, if the Sheriff has specified that caution is to be found. This will be clearly stated in your court order. If you
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of your incapacity, it must clearly state that the powers are not to be used until this happens. You
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continue to claim VAT in addition to the sum of remuneration awarded, and it will be approved
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with their annual accounting.
If you require further information or clarification on any of the above, please
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is involved. The Sheriff Clerk can also provide further information on the application process
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We are experiencing an issue with our IT systems and are unable to access emails or our internal IT system therefore the office is currently closed. We are working with our system provider to resolve this.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause
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The Office of the Public Guardian is still closed due to a technical issue with our IT systems. We are unable to access emails or our internal IT system and we are working with our system provider to resolve this.
We will provide a further update at 12pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause
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told us about at the close of that account period. You must send evidence along with the completed